I am not an expert on elementary topos (meaning by this to work with the internal language in a Grothendiek topos) and I rather be told than struggle with the following: Consider an elementary topos $\mathcal{E}$, a locale $G$, the unique locale morphism $i^*: \Omega \to G$, and any arrow $\lambda: X \times Y \to G$: Consider the following formulae on $\lambda$: ed): ($\bigvee_{y\in Y} \;\lambda\langle x,y \rangle = 1$), uv): ($\lambda\langle x,y \rangle \wedge \lambda\langle x,y' \rangle \leq i^*[[y = y']]$). Let $\theta: X \times Y \to Map(X,\,Y)$ be the universal locale furnished with such an arrow (that is, $\forall \lambda \; \exists ! \; \varphi^* : Map(X,Y) \to G \;\; \varphi^* \theta = \lambda$) Gavin Wraith in "Localic Groups", Cahiers de Top. et Geom. Diff. Vol XXII-1 (1981) defines an object $Points(G) = LocalMorphisms(G,\, \Omega) \subset \Omega^G$ and says that it is clear that: a) $Points(Map(X,\,Y)) = Y^X$. From this it follows that: b) There is a bijection $X \times Y \to \Omega \;\equiv\; X \to Y$ (where the arrow on the right satisfy ed) and uv)) QUESTION 1] I ask for a convincing proof of a), or better, a proof of the weaker ? b). Concerning b), consider the following conditions on a relation $R \subset X \times Y$: exed) $\pi_1: R \to X$ is an epimorphism. exuv) The family $y = \pi_2 (x, y): C \to R \to Y$ is a compatible family with respect to the family $x = \pi_1 (x, y): C \to R \to X$. (indexed by all $(x, y): C \to R$) Then, using that epis are strict it follows using standard category theory: $R$ satisfy exed) and exuv) $\Leftrightarrow$ $\exists ! \; f: X \to Y$ such that $R = \Gamma_f$ (the Graph of $f$) Thus, b) will follow if we can prove : $R$ satisfy exed) and exuv) $\Leftrightarrow$ $\varphi_R$ satisfy ed) and uv) ($\varphi_R$ $=$ characteristic function). This is more related with the formula uv'): ($\; \lambda (x, y) \wedge \lambda ( x', y') \wedge i^*[[x = x']] \leq i [[y = y']] $ ) SUBQUESTION] Are uv) and uv') equivalent ? QUESTION 2] Consider now a geometric morphism $f: \mathcal{F} \to \mathcal{E}$. We have a bijection $X \times Y \to f_*\Omega_\mathcal{E} \;\; \equiv \;\; f^*X \times f^*Y \to \Omega_\mathcal{E}$. I want to know if the arrows satisfying ed) and uv) correspond under this bijection.